Maybe it’s time for a sigh of relief. The much rumored “cyber-jihad,” scheduled for Sunday, never took place.

Most security researchers dismissed, or at leas downplayed, the threat in the days leading up to the scheduled Nov. 11 event, but I’d bet there was – and likely is – at least one person working for the federal government taking the threat seriously.

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponnen has a write-up on the company blog, stating, “Cyberterrorism is not a problem. But it does make for cool movie scripts.”

And Peter Coogan at Symantec Security Response filed this post, listing the tale of the tape between e-Jihad vs. Storm Worm. Guess who won?

Here’s a hint, from Coogan’s post:

“Comparing the e-jihad and Storm techniques mentioned above clearly shows that the ‘cyber terrorists’ in this case are well behind the cyber criminals.”